Time with Saint Joseph (39)
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Dear listeners,
as always, a special greeting to sick people, suffering in body and spirit. We have always known that not all illnesses are curable, but all illnesses are curable and this spiritual meeting of ours is intended to be a medicine to cure the disease of loneliness, discouragement and distrust. These are the heaviest illnesses that no medicine other than company and tender love can heal.
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Dear Saint Joseph,
we want to spend this hour of time in your company and next to your sweet wife Maria.
Holy Week: panorama of the life of faith
Tomorrow morning all the bishops of the Catholic world will celebrate the Chrism Mass, to consecrate this ointment for the celebration of the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, holy orders and for the sacrament of healing the anointing of the sick.
Holy Week presents us with a vast set of symbolic images, very emotional, full of teaching and engaging testimony such as: the washing of the feet, the breaking of bread, the descent into hell.
Tomorrow, before the sun sets, the liturgy will be performed as a healing gesture in the action of the washing of the feet.
It is a gesture of healing for our human frailty. Every fragility is strengthened and healed above all with love and sharing: love never looks down, but always lowers itself to raise up.
Before the great priestly prayer, with the washing of the feet, Jesus anticipates the style of a service, both for all the people of God but also and above all for the priests: they must learn to be servants and not masters, not officials but supportive traveling companions.
When he grows up, Jesus will say to imitate him: "I have done, so that you can do."
Since childhood, Jesus had learned how to serve and love life in an authentic way: by serving.
Roads to walk on the right path of holiness
A cordial welcome to our monthly appointment in the company of Saint Joseph, at the beginning of this month of March which the centuries-old tradition of the church has dedicated to Saint Joseph.
The name of Saint Joseph is particularly linked to the Wednesdays of the month, in particular, like today, and, again, the 19th of each month and then the entire month of March. The month of March also celebrates the conception of Jesus in the womb of the virgin Mary. In fact, on March 25th, the nine months awaiting the birth of the Son of God among us will begin.
Director's broadcast on Radio Mater - February 2015
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Divine light invades the twilight of human history
The month of February began with an explosion of light and an announcement of joy for the entire Church, but in the past the joy was for two elderly people who had the desire to be able to see the Messiah. There were two old men who stood guard at the doors of the temple to indicate the presence of the Messiah in a human creature. There was the old Simeon who, after having taken the son of God made man in his arms, feels satisfied with days and tells the Lord that he can close his eyes on the earth because his pupils had seen the divine light invade the paths of life Human. Director's broadcast on Radio Mater - December 2014
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Dear and beloved Saint Joseph, last Sunday's Roman rite liturgy echoed in our assemblies the words of your son Jesus, who invited us to keep vigil, but also offered us reasons to be attentive and vigilant to the signs of God's presence in our life. The presence of the divine is a variegated presence similar to a diamond reflection. At every angle of light it gives a reflection of different colour.
Director's broadcast on Radio Mater - November 2014
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Dear Saint Joseph, at the beginning of this month in which in the memory of our dearly departed we need not only much, but all the joy of the saints to be able to face the painful theme of death that you, oh dear Saint Joseph, have supported with the comfort and presence of Jesus and your sweet and affectionate spouse, most holy Mary. In this moment of prayer, of reflection we want to pierce the sky and in the light of the Gospel of the words of your son Jesus, in the light of the Holy Spirit and with the help of our dearly departed we would like these painful and dramatic moments to become luminous and consider as a truth of faith that death is the sleep that awakens us in God. Director's broadcast on Radio Mater - July 2014
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Welcome to everyone for our monthly appointment in the comforting shadow of the spirituality of Saint Joseph who was next to Jesus. The Creator, who became a creature in Jesus, agreed to welcome the human qualities of Saint Joseph as a gift.
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A cordial welcome to our monthly appointment, for a prayer, a reflection, a contemplation in the light of the example of Saint Joseph, we want to begin by preparing our soul in an atmosphere of quiet prayer.
We crossed the hill in the month of May, dedicated by Christian piety to the veneration of the sweet wife of Saint Joseph, Mary.
Four days ago we began the month of June, the month of the harvest and the fruits of the earth.
In our contemplation, June will have its center of attraction next Sunday, the solemnity of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. This birth towards the end of the month, June 27th, will lead us to the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the hearth of divine charity which attracts like a calamity the positive qualities of our Christian existence and also the wreckage, the waste of our sins to burn them in the fire of his love.
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The house of Nazareth is always a welcoming home where you feel like a family, where you learn to be together, to respect each other, to love each other and to face life's difficulties together.
This evening I have before my eyes the faces of the people who are listening to us, I notice joy in their bright and satisfied looks, but I feel the sobbing of depressed people, people who have lost their serenity due to illness, anguished people who have lost their jobs or who are looking for it in vain.
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What a beautiful joy it is to be able to greet each other again this evening, ideally shake hands, look into each other's eyes and convey a look of sympathy and, ideally, walk a bit of a journey together, converse, pray, meditate, contemplate.
Ours is a meeting of prayer, of reflection, a conversation between friends as Pope Francis said a few days ago about the Samaritan woman, leaving the jug at the well, freeing oneself from worries and running to announce the joy of having found in Jesus the fixed point of our life.
I would like to remember what a rabbi said about charity: «If you want to lift a man from the mud and slime, don't think you can stay on top, contenting yourself with extending your hand to him. You too must descend into its slime and mud and grab it with strong hands and bring it back to you in the light." Jesus came down from the splendor of heaven and lowered himself to us.
In the company of Saint Joseph - March 2014
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Saint Joseph is our teacher not so much for the words he did not pronounce, but for the listening he knows how to give to our words and our requests.
His silence, we have said many times, is not mutism, but it is a silence illuminated by radiations with many facets that reflect luminous colours, almost indications of paths to follow in order to walk on the right path of holiness, fullness of evangelical beatitude.
The journey of the Exodus of the Jewish people from the slavery of Egypt to the promised land was also completed by the Holy Family.
At the beginning of this appointment, a cordial greeting to everyone: to the listeners, to those who listen to us at home or on the street returning from work, to those who are preparing dinner, but, in particular, to those who are afflicted by the many adversity, adversities that start from poor health, from the internal discomforts of depression, from economic problems, from unemployment and also from a dark horizon that generates intolerance towards life itself.
So a particularly cordial greeting to those who are angry with existence itself, to those who have not yet found a strong and valid reason to live. An ideal hug to those who feel useless, alone, to those without friends.
On December 8, Pope Francis was welcomed by a huge crowd in the center of Rome. At Piazza di Spagna, where he paid homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception, the pontiff said: "May the cry of the poor never leave us indifferent. The loneliness of the elderly and the fragility of children move us. Every human life be with us loved and venerated."
Francis prayed aloud at the foot of the Madonna in Piazza di Spagna.
"You - he added - are the 'all beautiful', O Mary, the word of God has become flesh in you.
May we not lose the path of our existence, may the contagious warmth of love illuminate our hearts."
May this divine beauty - he invoked - save us, our city and the entire world".
«An angel all for me»
The Hour of Compline is our hymn of praise for the past day and the handing over of our sleep to God so that it can generate new and fresh energy for the next day. In the final prayer, before reciting the final prayer, we say: "May the Lord grant us a peaceful night and a peaceful rest." And first there is the final prayer: «Visit, O Lord, this house of yours, and ward off the snares of evil spirits; yours
May angels dwell in it and guard it in peace." In that moment, in the silence of our room or under the solemn vaults of an abbey as in Jacob's dream, described in the book of Genesis, we seem to see many Angels who, descending from above, populate the sky with blessings that descend upon all families as the last blessing of the day.
On this day dedicated by the liturgy to the memory of the angels we cannot overlook the first pages of the evangelist Matthew who in the engagement phase and the first months of Jesus' life populates Joseph's dreams with the presence of angels who show him the path to follow and the mysteries to accept and the task of guarding his bride Mary in Nazareth, and then the family in Bethlehem and then in Egypt.